Soothsayer vs Psychic - What's the difference?
soothsayer | psychic |
(obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
A mantis or rearhorse.
A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.
A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium.
(gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
Relating to the abilities of a psychic.
Relating to the psyche.
* 1967 , , The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
As nouns the difference between soothsayer and psychic
is that soothsayer is one who tells the truth; a truthful person while psychic is a person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.As an adjective psychic is
relating to the abilities of a psychic.soothsayer
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Alternative forms
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(en noun)See also
* prognosticator * seer * prophetpsychic
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(wikipedia psychic)Noun
(en noun)References
Adjective
(en adjective)- You must be psychic - I was just about to say that.
- She is a psychic person - she hears messages from beyond.
- A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms
